George LeMieux’s Latest “Tax Cuts” Hostage: DREAM Act

Sen. “Stand-In” George LeMieux (R-FL) is nearing the end of his career as a placeholder for incoming Sen. Marco Rubio, but he won’t be leaving without doing as much damage as possible in the ongoing GOP War on Americans, in which he is an eager participant. Usually Sen. LeMieux can be found almost daily nagging [...]

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Meek, Crist, And The Dropping Out, Not Dropping Out Update

Well, we’re down to just a few days before the elections and things are getting a little hectic, so there are a couple of new developments worth mentioning. And no, as of this writing no one has dropped out of the Senate race. All three candidates, Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist, and Marco Rubio are still [...]

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Pay No Attention To Rubio Behind The Curtain, Making Deals In The Back Room

Fresh from the “dropping out, not dropping out” debacle last night between Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek, not unsurprisingly Marco Rubio is trying to benefit from it all. (Not that there aren’t speculations that the Republicans may have been involved somewhere along the way.) So naturally the  currently “I’m not with the GOP” (I’m you, [...]

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Crist “Goes There” With Final Ad

First Sarah Palin took credit for Marco Rubio’s “Roguey, Mavericky-ness,” while Marco “fled the interview” (so to speak) at a rally last weekend and ducked out to avoid Palin, and now Charlie’s kindly bringing them back together again. One big happy family. “You betcha’! (Well, until she gets “Katherine Harris-ed,” anyway. But don’t tell Sarah!) [...]

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Media Follows The Bouncing Sound Byte In Florida Senate Debate

There was another debate between Florida U.S. Senate candidates Kendrick Meek (D), Charlie Crist (WHAT-DAY-IS-IT) and Marco Rubio (JEB-PULLS-MY-STRINGS-AND-KARL-ROVE-FUNDS-ME) yesterday. As usual the media is following the sound bytes designed by Tea Bagger in chief Marco Rubio and running with it. He’s hoping all will be distracted by his little quip claiming he was being [...]

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Rubio At The Center Of Circular “Hero Of The Taj Mahal” Firing Squad….Again

It seems that Marco Rubio again finds himself in the center of that circular firing squad as the “hero of the Taj Mahal” no matter how hard he tries to squirm out of it. As you’ll recall, Rubio made the secret “hero’s list” in an e-mail for securing funds to build the monstrosity of a [...]

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Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist & Rick Scott All No-Shows For Debates

The League of Women Voters and PBS had to call off both gubernatorial and Senate televised debates today because Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Rick Scott all declined to participate. The sponsors said they’d lined up Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff of PBS’s The NewsHour to moderate the debates Thursday in Orlando. They couldn’t, though, [...]

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Is Marco Rubio’s Campaign Receiving Foreign Funding?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been in the news a lot lately and for good reason. They are one of the larger contributors to political campaigns for Republicans in particular. They also have a great deal of foreign membership and get a lot of foreign money. One of the reasons they’ve been in the [...]

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